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Course Number: 5300
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Historiography Course Description: An exploration of historical theory and approaches to historical research and analysis, as well as how historical interpretations have changed over time. Required prior to admission to candidacy. |
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Course Number: 5301
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar in Native American History Course Description: A graduate level course that examines the scholarship about the Native peoples and cultures of North America. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5302
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar in the American West Course Description: A graduate level course that examines the scholarship about the peoples and cultures of the American West. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5304
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar in the Old South Course Description: A seminar on the political, economic, social, and cultural history of the Old South, 1787-1861. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5305
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar in American Slavery Course Description: More intense study, additional assignments and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. A seminar on the history of American slavery. |
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Course Number: 5306
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar in US Women's History to 1877 Course Description: This course provides a historical overview of women's roles and constructions of gender in U.S. history beginning in early North America to 1877. It provides an understanding of essential concepts and methods of feminist inquiry, as well as a broad range of gender issues concentrating on how women of different ethnicities, regions, classes, and ages experienced and shaped their daily lives under the constraints of a given era. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5307
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar in US Women's History since 1877 Course Description: This course provides a historical overview of women’s roles and constructions of gender in U.S. history from the late nineteenth century through the present, shares an understanding of essential concepts and methods of feminist inquiry, and explores a broad range of gender issues, concentrating on how women of different ethnicities, regions, classes, and ages experienced and shaped their daily lives under the constraints of a given era. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5308
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Directed Readings Course Description: Directed readings to be arranged by student in consultation with faculty member in area of mutual interest. Course may be applied to 5000 level course requirement for a maximum of 6 hours in the thesis program and 9 hours in the non-thesis option. |
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Course Number: 5312
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar - American Revolution Course Description: More intense study, additional assignments and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. A seminar exploring the causes, progress and consequences of the American Revolution from the 1750s into the early 1800s. |
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Course Number: 5313
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar in US History, 1815-1845 Course Description: A graduate level course on U.S. history from 1815 to 1845. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5314
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar in the American Civil War Course Description: A graduate level course that examines the scholarship on the America Civil War. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5315
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar: The Slave Trade Course Description: A graduate seminar examining the international and domestic slave trades. This graduate course requires more reading and writing assignments than an undergraduate class. Students are held to higher expectations. |
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Course Number: 5317
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar in African-American History since 1877 Course Description: A graduate seminar on the history of African Americans from 1877 to the present. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5318
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar in African History I to 1877 Course Description: History 5318 is a graduate level course providing an in-depth analysis of topics in the African past prior to 1877 and immediately beyond. Particular attention is paid to the development of African political structures, religious concepts/institutions, and socio-economic patterns and how they impacted the developments of African societies studied here as well as other major historic contacts including Arabian and European spheres. The methodological approach is multi-disciplinary and thematic. Graduate students will execute a professional level of original research and present it to undergraduate students in an effective pedagogical format. |
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Course Number: 5332
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Course Description: More intense study, additional assignments and higher expectations then the undergraduate course; this course is a seminar on U.S. history from 1877 to 1920 emphasizing industrialization, immigration, urbanization and reform. |
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Course Number: 5335
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Topics in History Course Description: Selected special topics in major areas. Course may be repeated when topic varies. |
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Course Number: 5338
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Ancient Greece and Rome Course Description: Greece and Rome from earliest times to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. |
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Course Number: 5344
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate seminar in Witchcraft and the Occult in Early Modern Europe Course Description: More intense study, additional assignments and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. This course examines the role of western occult philosophies in the revival of learning from the Renaissance to the seventeenth centuries. |
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Course Number: 5345
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Atlantic World Course Description: A history of the Atlantic World 1450-1750, from Portugese exploration to the rise of the global economy. |
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Course Number: 5346
Credit Hours: 3 Title: French Revolution and Napoleon Course Description: An examination of the French Revolution and Napoleon from the Old Regime to the early years of the nineteenth century. |
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Course Number: 5347
Credit Hours: 3 Title: The British Empire Course Description: A historical survey of British imperial history from Elizabethan times to the present, including the North American, Asian and African imperial experiences. |
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Course Number: 5349
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar in 19th-Century Europe Course Description: An overview of European history from 1789 to 1914, focusing on the major economic, social, and political developments. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5350
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar in 20th Century Europe Course Description: An overview of European history from the 1890s to the 1990s, focusing on the major economic, social, and political developments. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5353
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar in Nazi Germany Course Description: An examination of the Nazi period in the context of overall German and European history. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5354
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar in the Holocaust Course Description: More intense study, additional assignments and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. A seminar on the Holocaust in the context of German and European history of the period. |
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Course Number: 5355
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar on World War II in the Pacific Course Description: A graduate level course that examines the Pacific theater of World War II from both the American and Asian perspectives. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5356
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar on the Nuclear Age Course Description: A graduate level course on the history of the nuclear age since the detonation of the first atomic bomb in 1945. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5358
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar on the History of Heavy Metal Music Course Description: An overview of the music genre from the 1960s to the present, examining its roots in blues and rock ‘n’ roll, its explosion in the 1980s, and its continued popularity in the 21st century. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5359
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Society and War: The United States Course Description: This course examines the social and cultural history of warfare, taught with varying concentrations, including but not limited to global, trans-Atlantic, or US topics. |
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Course Number: 5364
Credit Hours: 3 Title: East Asia to 1800 Course Description: East Asian history from antiquity to c. 1800 exploring the distinctiveness of traditional China, Japan and Korea throgh their interconnections. |
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Course Number: 5365
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar in East Asia Since 1800 Course Description: More intense study, additional assignments and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. A seminar on the making of modern China, Japan and Korea. |
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Course Number: 5368
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar Middle East in the 20th Century Course Description: An overview of the region from the late 1800s to the 1990s with emphasis on the political, social, and economic changes that occurred, as well as the region’s relationship with the United States. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5370
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar on Monsters in Mexican-American History Course Description: This course examines the history of ghost stories, “monsters,” and legends in Mexican American communities throughout the U.S. Southwest. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5375
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Graduate Seminar on Chicano History Course Description: This course examines the history of the Chicano Movement and the ethnic Mexican community’s experience and response during the fight for social, political, and economic justice in the mid-1960s to the late 1970s. Furthermore, this course explores how different deologies, politics, and approaches shaped the struggle for civil rights. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. |
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Course Number: 5390
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Thesis Course Description: Mandatory research and writing course for graduate students on the thesis track, coordinated by supervising professor of thesis committee and designed to promote satisfactory progress toward a completed thesis. May not be taken concurrently with HIST 5391. Must complete both HIST 5390/5391 for required 6 credits. |
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Course Number: 5391
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Thesis Course Description: Mandatory research and writing course for graduate students on the thesis track, involving all members of thesis committee and resulting in the successful completion of a thesis. May not be taken concurrently with HIST 5390. Must complete both HIST 5390/5391 for required 6 credits. |
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Course Number: 5395
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Seminar in Local History Course Description: Seminar in Local History will examine major patterns of scholarship in the broad field of state and local history from early social history to digital history. This course will explore multi-disciplinary approaches to researching, interpreting and presenting local history and will examine local history in relation to public history theory and practice. Students will also have the opportunity to work with the Texas Historical Commission in developing a state historical marker project as well as multiple Beaumont-area historical organizations in developing a professional local history project. |
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Course Number: 5396
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Digital History Course Description: Digital History is a course designed to familiarize students with the broad range of digital methods employed by historians to tell better stories about the past. This course is hands-on and project-based and intended to introduce students to a range of digital methods. Students will be expected to conduct original research while using these methods. This course will also require students to analyze and interpret digital projects and communicate results. Course requirements will be a combination of hands-on project work, assessing digital projects, engaging in digital training and analyzing readings to understand the historiography of digital history. |
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Course Number: 5397
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Museums and Historical Interpretation Course Description: Museums and Historical Interpretation explores the professional world of museums, the place of museums within our cultural landscape and the methods of interpretation critical to creating meaningful museum experiences. The course explores both theoretical and practical aspects of museum studies, including specialized museum career options, such as museum education, collections management and exhibit development. Readings in professional museum literature will lay the foundation for reflective study on best practices and methodology in museums. Experiential learning opportunities will provide field experiences to enhance career prospects by developing specialized skills and professional work products. This course will also provide a foundation for historical interpretation, including how public audiences use the past and challenges faced by public historians in balancing audience needs and professional standards. |